[sub] [Sussex] 2.6 help...

[Paul Turner]

what's the symbolic link /usr/src/linux pointing to?

I can't remember exactly from gentoo, but I expect that you will have more
than one linux source directory in /usr/src and the symbolic link should
point to the kernel version you want to compile.

Regards Paul.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Macdonald-Wallace" <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk>
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Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:42 AM
Subject: [sub] [Sussex] 2.6 help...


> I thought I installed the kernel and was booting from it, but if I do a
> uname -r it says I'm still using 2.4.20-gentoo-r6.
>
> I've emerge the new init tools and downloaded the source, made xconfig
> and compiled the kernel, copied it to /boot and edited my lilo.conf to
> point to the right place and it still comes up with 2.4.20-gentoo-r6...
> and yes, I have rebooted... :p
>
> Any ideas anyone?  On the upside, this proves I have more to learn, and
> learning is fun!
>
> Matt (possibly turning into the "Barney" of linux...)
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